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  • Hi, everybody.

  • My name is Alicia.

  • In this lesson, I'm going to talk about three verbs.

  • I'm going to talk about the difference between answer, reply and respond.

  • So let's get started.

  • Okay.

  • First, let's take a look at the verb answer to answer the meaning of the verb to answer is one to react to a question.

  • So a simple question.

  • What time is it?

  • What's your name?

  • How are you?

  • Those air?

  • Simple questions.

  • So when we react to that, like 12 o'clock Alicia, I'm good.

  • Those are all answers, and we can say I answered the question in response so we can use it in that way.

  • But we can also use it when we're taking tests, tests or examinations when we include or we choose, uh, an answer as a noun when we choose something on the test and we mark that that's called answering a question on a test.

  • So we use answer for, like, verbal questions and written questions, but we also use it for test questions, too, so this is good to keep in mind.

  • When you're answering something, you're answering some questions, or there's some some questions, some inquiry that you're reacting to.

  • So there's something that's like a question being posed.

  • That's a good thing to keep in mind for this firm.

  • Also, we use answer for these two cases when we pick up the phone.

  • So there's an incoming phone call.

  • Your phone is ringing when you pick up the phone.

  • We use the verb answer to describe that we say to answer the phone, Please answer your phone.

  • We also use it when guests come to our homes or to our offices or to other locations when the guest arrives at the door or at the reception.

  • Or there's some kind of door area where you need to receive your guests.

  • We use the verb answer to refer to opening the door and greeting the guests.

  • So if someone knocks on the door to announce they have arrived at your home, you go to the door.

  • Open it, we say.

  • That's called answering the door.

  • So please answer the door.

  • Our guests are here, so to answer the door is to open the door when guests arrive.

  • To answer your phone is to pick up the phone when your phone rings.

  • So these are a couple of other ways that we use the verb answer.

  • Let's look at some examples now, too.

  • All right, 1st 1 please answer the questions.

  • Please answer the questions.

  • We could use this for a test.

  • We could use this in like a discussion as well.

  • Please answer the question.

  • This is a very simple bass way to use a basic way to use.

  • Answer here for a test.

  • Answer all questions within 30 minutes.

  • So here's a command answer all questions within 30 minutes on a test.

  • Probably.

  • Here's a negative example he didn't answer in this case.

  • He didn't answer his phone.

  • So if you call someone and the other person does not pick up the phone, they don't answer their phone.

  • This is how you can explain that.

  • He didn't answer and we remove this part.

  • He didn't answer because from the situation, it's quite clear he didn't answer his phone.

  • We know it's his phone because you were on the phone, so he didn't answer.

  • We can use it in this way.

  • Okay, now that's answer.

  • Let's take a look at reply.

  • Next reply.

  • Reply is used to, uh, to mean to react to a statement or a question.

  • So someone says something someone poses.

  • A question asks a question to react to that.

  • We can use the verb reply or rather, we can use replied to refer to our reaction to that thing.

  • So we'll see in just a moment.

  • Reply is not as formal as respond.

  • Actually, from these verbs when I'm emailing, I tend to use reply in my emails a lot more.

  • Thank you very much for your reply, for example, so that's used as a noun, but you can use it as a verb.

  • So, like please reply at your earliest convenience, for example, you could use that two e mails.

  • That's what I intend to use anyway.

  • Some examples of using reply here first, she replies to e mails really quickly.

  • So meaning she reacts to people's e mails really quickly.

  • And by do end, she therefore returns the statement.

  • She g gives something back, she replies.

  • Another example.

  • He never replied to my messages his past tense, So I sent a message to someone I did not receive a reaction so I can say he never replied to my message.

  • Here's another one.

  • We also use this in writing, like in novels and books to describe someone's reaction.

  • A question.

  • What time is it?

  • 12 o'clock, he replied.

  • So you'll see this in books.

  • Lots of storytelling uses.

  • Reply as well.

  • Reply in response or respond as a verb in more formal situations, but replies kind of like a basic sort of neutral level reaction to something.

  • So I tend to use reply a za noun and as a verb, a lot in my email writing.

  • Okay, let's move along to respond, then so respond.

  • Also like reply.

  • It means to react to a statement or a question.

  • So these two have that same meaning.

  • However, respond sounds a bit more formal than reply.

  • So if you use respond in like a text message to your friend like please respond to my message or please respond by tomorrow, it might sound too formal.

  • Reply is probably better when you're texting your friends like please reply to the invitation by tomorrow.

  • Sounds much more natural.

  • Respond would be good at work when you're using um, like work email for something or when you're on the phone as well.

  • So using this is much better for, like business situations.

  • Also respond has an additional meaning that's not related exactly to communication.

  • Respond can also mean to have a good reaction to something to have a good reaction to something.

  • So I'll share some examples of this.

  • But this is not the focus meaning for this lesson, but I'll introduce some examples.

  • Okay, so let's look at examples of this part.

  • First, I need to respond to that email.

  • I need to respond to that email.

  • Maybe you're telling your boss I need to respond to that email from the client.

  • Sounds a little more formal.

  • It sounds a little more important.

  • Another one a question.

  • Have you responded to those enquiries yet?

  • Have you responded to those enquiries yet?

  • So you received, like client in Cory's or customer enquiries and inquiry is a question.

  • So have you responded to those enquiries?

  • Another one?

  • A negative.

  • They're not going to respond.

  • They're not going to respond.

  • So this is you're making a guess.

  • A good, probably a strong guest.

  • The other party or it may be the client.

  • The customer is not going to respond.

  • They're not going to react to something.

  • Okay, so as I mentioned, respond does have this other meaning of reacting favorably, reacting well to something.

  • So we used him for, like, public reactions to things.

  • We can use them a lot for medicine, like treatments and so on.

  • Ah, so here's one.

  • She responded well to treatment.

  • She responded.

  • Well, to treatment doesn't mean she said something or she wrote something.

  • It means she received some treatment.

  • She's sick.

  • So she received some treatment, some medicine of some kind, and her body was happy about the treatment.

  • There was a good response.

  • Her body responded well, so there was a good reaction in her body.

  • That's what this means here.

  • Second example sentence.

  • I think the public will respond well to this policy.

  • So this is a prediction.

  • The speaker is making a guess.

  • So they have this new policy.

  • The speaker thinks the public, the general people out there in that society will respond Well, In other words, they will have a good reaction to this new policy.

  • So this use of response is a little different from kind of reacting to a statement or reacting to a question.

  • It's actually having a good reaction to something so slightly different.

  • And you might see this in news.

  • Ah, lot, too.

  • So keep an eye out for that.

  • Okay, so this is a basic introduction to the differences between answer, reply and respond.

  • I hope it was helpful for you.

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